Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ A com­pany which has its seat abroad may have a branch in Switzer­land. The branch is gov­erned by Swiss law.

² The power of rep­res­ent­a­tion of the branch is gov­erned by Swiss law. At least one of the per­sons au­thor­ised to rep­res­ent the branch must be dom­i­ciled in Switzer­land and re­gistered in the Swiss com­mer­cial re­gister.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil ad­opts the im­ple­ment­ing reg­u­la­tions con­cern­ing man­dat­ory re­gis­tra­tion in the com­mer­cial re­gister.